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133. K-On!
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5680/K-On
Spring 2009 (13 episodes) plus 1 OVA, Spring 2010 (0/26, unfinished)
My Score: 5/10, MAL Score: 7.85/10 S1, 8.17/10 S2
Best Character: Hirasawa Yui

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_-RBl0lfY

Premise: Hirasawa Yui joins the Light Music Club thinking it will be about simple instruments. She almost quits, but the promise of slacking off and a newfound love for guitar keeps her in.

The Good: K-On is a cute girls music anime, but it isnt super focused on the idea of forming a band. They play songs sometimes, but they also slack off or have hilarious misunderstandings or do fun stuff entirely unrelated to music. Im a fan of music anime, so I liked the bits focused on the band the best. Yui was a great character. I vividly remember one bit where she was supposed to be studying but it kept cutting to her sitting on her bed strumming the guitar with a dumb look on her face. The slice-of-life was also decent.

The Bad: Years ago, when I felt myself getting out of anime (after watching junk like Eden of the East and My Little Monster back-to-back), I finally decided to watch K-On as a kind of break glass in case of emergency anime to get me back into it. It sounded like the perfect one for me, cute girls playing music and having fun and everything is light and fluffy. And, yes, thats exactly what K-On is. It just didnt grab me the way Id hoped it would. I got to the end of the first season, thought it was fine, and then didnt watch any anime for a few years. K-On didnt do anything wrong. It was probably just the wrong time in my life for anime and nothing wouldve hooked me back in. I remember it being a bit too unfocused for my tastes, but someday Ill rewatch it from the start with a better frame of mind and see if thats really true.

Overall: Its tough to talk about this because obviously I didnt even get halfway through it. K-On was a fun anime with cute characters and some nice music segments. Eventually I intend to restart it from the beginning and give it a fairer chance than it had the first time through.

COMING UP TOMORROW:
132: The club this anime wanted to join has been disbanded.
C80: This character doesn't like their nickname.
131: This anime considers music to be evil.

(I apologize once more for today having two anime I haven't finished. I haven't finished 131 either but, again, after that one there will only be two more unfinished anime on the list. Also I would gladly finish 131 right now if it were still available anywhere...)